Still Waters Run Deep

Still Waters Run Deep is a play by Tom Taylor (1817-1880)[1]

The original text

Based on Charles de Bernard's French novel, Le Gendre, the play was first produced on stage at the Royal Olympic Theatre on May 14, 1855, and published in New York by C. T. De Witt in 1877

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1858: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town on 11 May by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with Medea, or The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of a Husband (Brough), with a "Highland Fling" by an amateur. The choice of the plays and their presentation was highly praised by critics and the public.

1858: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town on 18 May by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with Medea, or The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of a Husband (Brough), in addition to a "Highland Fling" by an amateur and a "song in character" by J.E.H. English.

c.1861-1864: One of the plays performed by the Port Elizabeth Dramatic Club and collaborators during these, its active years.

1862: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 28 July by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with Monsieur Tonson (Moncrieff).

1862: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 4 August by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with Monsieur Tonson (Moncrieff), along with a performance by Mrs Tellett and her company of A Perfect Cure (Sapte).

1862: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 23 September by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with The Cure (Anon.), the latter play performed jointly as the Cape Town and Royal Alfred Dramatic Club.

1863: Performed in Port Elizabeth by the newly founded P.E. Dramatic Club and with the help om members of the old Howard and Cooper Company in the early part of the year, as a benefit for Mrs Cooper, That Affair at Finchley (Coyne) and a new ballet devised by Mrs Cooper called Our Volunteers, with scenery built and painted by R.S. Cooper.

1863: Performed by Thomas Brazier and a company of amateurs in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 10 October, with as Living Too Fast, or A Twelvemonth's Honeymoon (Troughton) as afterpiece.

1866: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre (Theatre Royal) by the Le Roy and Duret Company, with the help of "several Gentlemen Amateurs", on 5 May, with Sam's Arrival (Oxenford).

1873: Performed in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and his company on 1 December, with Turn Him Out (Williams).

1873: Performed in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and his company on 3 December, with A Rough Diamond (Buckstone).

1874: Performed by Disney Roebuck and company in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town, on 11 February, with The Morning Call (Dance).

1875: Performed by Disney Roebuck and company in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, on 25 June, with a recitation of the poem The May Queen (Tennyson) by Miss Berenger and an unnamed farce.

1875: Performed by Disney Roebuck and company in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, on 26 August, in the place of the advertised The Palace if Truth (Tennyson) because of the serious illness of Miss Berenger).

1877: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and his company on 19 September, with as The Rough Diamond (Buckstone).

1884: Performed, with H.C. Sidney as "Milday", as part of a season of plays put on in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Henry Harper and company.

1891-2: Performed by the Geneviève Ward Company during a nine months' tour of South Africa, under the auspices of Luscombe Searelle, featuring Geneviève Ward and W.H. Vernon in the leading roles.

Sources

https://idiomation.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/still-waters-run-deep/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Taylor

Facsimile version of the 1877 text by De Witt, The Internet Archive[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 72, 142-147, 150, 161, 189, 203, 208. 210, 296-8, 309, 311-312, 325-6, 329, 333, 335, 339, 360, 367, 378, 392 and 418

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